alt Hacker NewsNo. The point of rust editions is that they do break support for older code, which is very different to what go has now settled on.
IMO, it's the best of both worlds. Old code continues to work forever, but your language design isn't held back by older design mistakes.
The trouble with the Rust community is that it is terrible at communication. That may be why you extend a presupposition that everyone understands the meaningful difference between Rust editions and Go version directives, but I can't tell a difference beyond the frivolous like syntax used. Based on the documentation of each they seem like the exact same concept, with the exact same goals in mind. As a result, unfortunately, your point is not yet made. Perhaps you can break the cycle and describe for every day people how Rust editions are fundamentally different?